The Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle's Biology
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
The Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle's Biology
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
The chapter sketches a broad picture of some ideas, antecedent to Aristotle's work, about the origin and development of living beings. Against the background of the new cosmological and metaphysical framework of Aristotle's biological enterprise, it emphasizes what distinguishes Aristotle from the Presocratics and Plato: his rejection of a shared causal story that would account for both the origin of the universe and the birth of animals and plants. This shift helps to make intelligible Aristotle's rejection of hylozoism and of the opposite view that life arises, mysteriously, from inanimate material ingredients. To demonstrate that Aristotle discusses the biological views of his predecessors without directly using them to build his own theory, the chapter first turns to Presocratic fragments, mostly of Anaximander and Empedocles, which connect biological matters and cosmogony. Second, the chapter takes a fresh look at how Plato reshapes this connection in his Timaeus, offering a new account of the nature of the universe and the nature of human beings. This account then enables us to evaluate, in the chapter's final section, the changes that Aristotle brings to the study of living beings, including his rejection of the notion of the latter's progressive formation.
Název v anglickém jazyce
The Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle's Biology
Popis výsledku anglicky
The chapter sketches a broad picture of some ideas, antecedent to Aristotle's work, about the origin and development of living beings. Against the background of the new cosmological and metaphysical framework of Aristotle's biological enterprise, it emphasizes what distinguishes Aristotle from the Presocratics and Plato: his rejection of a shared causal story that would account for both the origin of the universe and the birth of animals and plants. This shift helps to make intelligible Aristotle's rejection of hylozoism and of the opposite view that life arises, mysteriously, from inanimate material ingredients. To demonstrate that Aristotle discusses the biological views of his predecessors without directly using them to build his own theory, the chapter first turns to Presocratic fragments, mostly of Anaximander and Empedocles, which connect biological matters and cosmogony. Second, the chapter takes a fresh look at how Plato reshapes this connection in his Timaeus, offering a new account of the nature of the universe and the nature of human beings. This account then enables us to evaluate, in the chapter's final section, the changes that Aristotle brings to the study of living beings, including his rejection of the notion of the latter's progressive formation.
Klasifikace
Druh
C - Kapitola v odborné knize
CEP obor
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OECD FORD obor
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
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Návaznosti
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2021
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název knihy nebo sborníku
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Biology
ISBN
978-1-107-19773-2
Počet stran výsledku
16
Strana od-do
30-45
Počet stran knihy
355
Název nakladatele
Cambridge University Press
Místo vydání
Cambridge
Kód UT WoS kapitoly
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